For those keeping count, or simply interested, George Perkovich, vice president for studies and director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, also reviewed former IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei’s recent tome. He comes at it from a slightly different angle than Les Gelb in the NYT, providing excerpts of a letter from “a 12-year old Spanish girl named Alicia” to ElBaradei to frame his review, which appeared in last Friday’s Washington Post.
Rather sweet, really. To wit, Alicia writes to ElBaradei that she is “…against wars” and that she hopes “that in the conflict with Iran you are luckier and that things get solved by using dialogue and not through arms….And that the politicians of the USA accept the opinion of the UN.” Ah, youth. If only life were so simple.